Environmental Protection And Development Initiative (EPDI)

Environmental Protection and Development Initiative is an idea towards bringing together all environmentalist aim at fostering and ensuring environmental sustainable development, equity, fairness and justice.

EPDI, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

1. To bring together all environmentalist aim at fostering love, peace and unity amongst themselves.

2. To bring together all environmentalist aim at fostering developmental projects in their communities and its environs.

3. To inculcate in the minds of the rural dwellers the need to sustain their homes using the available medium as workshops, conferences, seminars, symposium and the mass media.

4. To monitor and checkmate the abuse of our natural resources by the explorers.

5. To liase with government, individual, companies and other organizations to promote and execute  projects and programmes viable to our socital growth.

6. To fight against the menace of our societal deviancy such as juvenile delinquency and other vices that degrades our environment.

7. To train and retrain members on enviromental coalition.

 Environmental Protection and Development Initiative is the coming together of trained and committed environmnetalist with the priority of ensuring and fostering Education for the purpose of sustainable and equitable development

 This idea was innovated in the University of Calabar in 2001 as an NGO  by Comrade Daniel A. Edoho was then a student of Department of Geography and Regional Planning (GRP), Environmental Protection and Resource Management Unit EPM, University of Calabar.

In 2002 the United Nations Environmental Programme UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya, commended on the effort of EPDI and included EPDI on their mailing list as an NGO.

We are environmental advocates questing for sustainable development.

EPDI is a nascent organisation still seeking for coperation, enhancement and empowerment towards the implementation of its aims and objectives.

As a way to contribute towards global sustainable development, EPDI is working and advocating on the issues of youths, sports, children and environment.

FOSTERING LOVE, PEACE AND UNITY.

Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. Depending on context, love can have a wide variety of intended meanings. It is commonly conceived of romantically, as a deep, ineffable feeling of intense and tender attraction shared in passionate or intimate interpersonal and sexual relationships. Love can also be conceived of as Platonic love, religious love, familial love, and, more casually, anything considered strongly pleasurable, desirable, or preferred, including activities and foods. This diverse range of meanings in the singular word love is often contrasted with the plurality of Greek words for love, reflecting the concept's depth, versatility, and complexity.

Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more social entities. This article focuses on the notion specific to interpersonal relationships. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them. Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating on a consistent basis:

the tendency to desire what is best for each other.
sympathy and empathy.
honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth.
mutual understanding.
In a comparison of personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than acquaintanceship, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and acquaintances. Friendship and acquaintanceship can be thought of spanning across the same continuum.

Love and Frienship comes together for the purpose of Peace and Unity.

PEACE

Peace is when entities are in harmony. In its most immediate and popular meaning, signifies the absence of hostilities. This definition of peace refers to a condition where nations or groups are not engaged in violent conflict. The conception of peace can go further to mean a relationship between parties characterized by respect, justice, and good will. Further descriptive meanings for peace include: a peace agreement, calm in the natural environment, an internal state of serenity, and silence. Since peace is a term prone to subjective viewpoints, there are many different definitions of peace.

UNITY

Unity, in mathematics and electrical engineering, refers to the number one
1 (one) is a number, numeral, and the name of the glyph representing that number. It is the natural number following 0 and preceding 2. It represents a single entity. One is sometimes referred to as unity or unit as an adjective. For example, a line segment of "unit length" is a line segment of length 1.

Bringing this together we can imagine the rate of harmony that will exist within our environment.

Fostering Developmental Project in our communities and its environs.

In order to foster and ensure sustainable development and change. Members of our community needs to come together to share, contribute and dialogue on ideas towards promoting the issues of sustainable and equitable development.
 
For a country to attain a very high level of sustainable development, the citizens and the inhabitance have to come together to think  on ideas, innovations, inventions and new methods towards ensuring that live continues.

This also include ways and avenues towards ensuring the sustainable development of livelihood.

How can we contribute towards community growth and development?

There are so many way to do this, such as Agriculture, water project, energy project etc. We, especially the youths must be up and doing by contributing positive ideas towards the sustainance of livelihood especially in a rural community.

Our environment is so dear to us and as such we have to do everything posible to protect it and to create it to the admiration of every of body.

We have to learn to take actions and also to be associated with developmental projects.

Government should do every thing possible to carry every body along especially on the issues of community development.

To be continued,